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Radio Reloj help

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Hello All:

I'm up here in Southeastern, WI. I was prowling the AM band last night from my bedside, I heard Cuba's Radio Reloj on 570. I know that Radio Reloj is a Cuban national network, (I've heard them on 790 & 950). Does anyone have any idea where Radio Reloj's 570 transmitter is?

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Probably Havanna but not sure. Cuba doesn't disclose their information

I believe they have transmitters in South America too.

-Rob
 
robfwb said:
Probably Havanna but not sure. Cuba doesn't disclose their information
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Only one of the Cuban Radio Reloj transmitters serves La Habana. The simultaneous network covers essentially all of Cuba with multiple transmitters; WRTVH has a reasonably close approximation to what is on the air.

I believe they have transmitters in South America too.
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No they don't.

"Radio Reloj" is a common station name all over Latin America, with CARACOL operating nearly a dozen in Colombia, and others in places like Perú, Ecuador, Panamá, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico (the venerable WKAQ dating to 1922) and so on. Each one is either part of a group unique to each country or an independent station, and none have anything at all to do with the Cuban operation (nor would they want to be associated with anything Cuban).
 
2008 WRTH list the 570/Radio Reloj as being 30 kW. This is Cuba, of course, so information may be less-than-perfect.

DE
 
Reloj 570 is listed as Santa Clara in World Radio TV Handbook.

Power? Who knows? listed as 30Kw. But that is doubtful. I've heard them under WSYR in Syracuse NY and here in Austin under KLIF Dallas.

It was actually possible to hear the announcers in Syracuse. Here it is just the tones. Have also heard them on 1020, 790 and 950 here in Texas.

Alan Furst
Round Rock Tx
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I'm pretty sure if you search for Radio Reloj, Santa Clara, Cuba in Google Earth it'll take you to one of their facilities. Now whether it's the one for 570 or shortwave I don't know, but with a little curiosity on Google Earth you can see some facilities fairly clearly.
 
It shouldn't be so strong to interfere with a local station all the way in Syracuse. 30 kW wouldn't do that, 300 kW might.
 
Nick said:
It shouldn't be so strong to interfere with a local station all the way in Syracuse. 30 kW wouldn't do that, 300 kW might.
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30 kw so close to the US can definitely do huge damage.

The 5 kw Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico operation on 640 trashes 50 kw KFI between Yucaipa and Palm Springs, CA... about 11o to 130 miles from the KFI site. It does not take much power to trash a station at night... that is why stations in the US a thousand or more miles apart use directional antennas to protect each other or the dominant occupant of the channel.

For example, when I managed WQII-1140 in San Juan, PR, we could send just the equvalent of 500 watts in the direction of Richmond, VA, and even less towards Monterrey, NL, Mexico, to protect WRVA and XEMR.

Most of the Cuban high power transmitters (1 300 kw on 1180 and a bunch of Czech 60's vintage 120 and 60 kw rigs) are in disrepair and running on lower power.
 
Zach said:
I'm pretty sure if you search for Radio Reloj, Santa Clara, Cuba in Google Earth it'll take you to one of their facilities. Now whether it's the one for 570 or shortwave I don't know, but with a little curiosity on Google Earth you can see some facilities fairly clearly.
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I don't believe Radio Reloj broadcasts on shortwave, but I stand to be corrected. Radio Rebelde is the Cuban network that comes to mind with a longstanding SW presence (on 5025khz).

Radio Reloj on 570 is a semi-regular in northern Illinois (under splatter from WIND). I think that this has less to do with power (30kw would seem to be about right), and more to do with the fact that 570 is relatively open around here. WKYX is usually on top here (but weak) nightly, with several others underneath. The easily-recognizable chirps from Radio Reloj can sometimes be heard in the mess.
 
Ditto the regional signal 'absence', cyberdad. For the longest time, 1270 was a relatively open frequency in the Northeast overnight and there was the Reloj, as faithful as ever, voice and, of course, code.

WMCA 570 and WOR 710 were perhaps the rarest NYC stations to sign off for any reason. In WMCA's case, when they were detected to be off, it was a struggle to hear anything domestic at the den in Western Long Island because our locale was in the null of Asheville, Youngstown and Syracuse. WPLP Pinellas Park came in well one night, along with ... Reloj.

A thing to remember is that Cuba is one of the areas of the hemisphere from where stations are apt to come in by default during Auroral times in the North. They'll tend to appear 'closer in your mirror' then.
 
Heard the tones loud and clear at about 7:30 tonight under KLIF here on the League City/Friendswood border (20 miles SE of downtown Houston). Later in the evening, both KLIF and Reloj fight it out pretty good here.
 
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